It is my pleasure, once again, to be continue my support as inorganizing the 4th Annual Ganoksin Support Campaign. Each year, onbehalf of Ganoksin, generous vendors and individuals donateequipment, services, books and workshop opportunities towardscritical revenue to offset the annual server charges insuring thatyou receive Orchid every day free of charge.

The winners are announced at the 12th Orchid Dinner at the TucsonGem Show, Friday, 8 Feb 2007

Ganoksin has made a commitment to over 65,000 subscribers,guarenteeing the integrity of our email discussions, attacks fromspammers and insuring that the server bandwith stays withinmanageable parameters.

In the next few weeks, I will be contacting many of you to be partof this annual event. However, there may be many of you that I don'tknow and your support is greatly needed and appreciated.

If you are interested in helping us reach this goal, please contactme directly. For a list of last year's prizes, see:

The 4th Annual Ganoksin Support Campaign is building up steam andforging ahead. Some of you have contacted me with great prizes, suchas a Durston Rolling Mill, certificates for stones, stone settingclasses, a flex shaft kit from Foredom, personalized businessguidance from Hill Management, jewelry and much more. We will have agreat lineup of goodies when the tickets go on sale. Right now,collections are at the half way point towards our goal of $20,000, sowe still need your support!

Anyone can purchase a gift certificate from any vendor on behalf ofGanoksin. Help us out towards our goal! We go live with our prizelist for tickets on November 20th and we need your help more thanever.

Please contact me if you have tools, a service or equipment todonate. There are many new subscribers to Ganoksin and I don't' knowwho you are. If you are new, each year we run a support campaign toassist in the cost of the computer servers which bring you all ofGanoksin, its Galleries, and most of all, your daily dose of Orchid.Prizes are collected with the idea of outfitting your studio.